Myanmar blames dissidents for bomb found in capital

[Coventina]

Source: Reuters

YANGON (Reuters) - Army-ruled Myanmar blamed dissidents Monday for planting a bomb on a train in the country's new capital and urged people to stay alert for more "subversive acts."

The bomb, hidden in a lavatory on the train, was defused on Sunday in Naypyidaw, about 240 miles north of the former capital Yangon, the state-run New Light of Myanmar said.

It said "terrorists-cum-insurgents are resorting to various means to commit bomb blasts in such cities like Naypyidaw, Yangon and Mandalay to provoke public panic and casualties of the people." It accused the All Burma Students Democratic Front (ABSDF), a group formed after the bloody suppression of student-led protests in 1988, of planning "subversive acts" in Yangon's Insein Township.

The newspaper said the ABSDF had formed a new Committee for Promoting People Activities (CPPA), which planned to hang anti-junta posters around Insein market and "sent two bombers into the nation for destructive acts."



Read more: http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE54O0S420090525

[Suji to Seoul]

1. Burma. The country is called Burma.

If you call it Myanmar, you are giving the junta acceptance.

B-U-R-M-A!!!

[Coventina]

2. Per DU LBN rules, I have to quote the headline exactly. n/t

[bemildred]

3. "Dissidents" huh? No fooling these guys. nt